A mother is standing by her boyfriend even after he was accused of shaking their five month-old baby son to death.
Lanisha Marlowe says she refuses to countenance that Kevin Clayton could be responsible for killing their boy Legenn, who died on Saturday, eight days after he was injured.
Marlow, from Omaha in Nebraska, said: ‘This man that cried the first time he held that baby in the hospital room … is shaking him?
I can’t believe it. I won’t believe it.’
The grieving mother, 24, believes another unidentified person is responsible for the injuries which killed Legenn.
But Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine is convinced Clayton is Legenn’s killer.
He says the suspect was the sole person looking after the infant a motel room when Legenn suffered the brain bleed that ultimately killed him.
Clayton dialed 911 to say that Legenn had arched his back and foamed at the mouth before becoming unresponsive.
He claimed to have found the youngster buried between two couch cushions, but prosecutors say Legenn’s injuries do not match up with Clayton’s version of events.
Clayton was originally charged with intentional child abuse resulting in serious injury, but this has now been upgrade to child abuse resulting in death.
He faces 20 years in jail if convicted, and is being held at Douglas County Jail in lieu of $2million bond.
